SAN JOSE, Calif.-WJ Communications Inc. said it will acquire the wireless infrastructure business and associated assets of EiC Corp.WJ Communications designs and supplies radio-frequency semiconductors and multichip modules, while EiC designs, develops, makes and sells proprietary radio-integrated circuits."Through this acquisition, we expect to achieve...
For Qualcomm Inc., CDMA is a double-edged sword.Although the company has enjoyed a significant amount of prosperity in its efforts to expand the CDMA industry, its success seems to cut both ways as Qualcomm is now in the midst of a chip shortage due...
Other than worries among chipmakers over Cisco System Inc.'s quarterly earnings, the sector continues to purr with good news. However, some analysts caution against overheating with inventory overload.Chipmakers that supply Cisco products suffered slides in their stock prices when Cisco announced double-digit profits that...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it has raised up to $316 million from selling shares in chipmakers Broadcom Corp. and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp.Motorola will spin off its chip business, which is named Freescale Semiconductors Inc., later this year.The vendor raised $216 million by selling...
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration identified exclusionary wireless standards and high mobile-phone interconnection as barriers to telecom trade in a new report.The findings, released by the U.S. Trade Representative, come as skirmishes escalate with South Korea and China over wireless Internet standards that administration and industry...
WASHINGTON-China, already facing mounting U.S. criticism over its Wi-Fi security standard, said it will consult with U.S. officials on a separate dispute before the World Trade Organization in which the Bush administration has accused Beijing of erecting barriers to imports of semiconductors manufactured in...
The future market for mobile-phone memory will total almost $6 billion, according to some in the industry, and could surpass the potential of the massive desktop computer industry in just three years. Indeed, the amount of storage available in next year's high-end mobile phones...
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration today said it filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization about China's tax treatment of integrated circuits imported from the United States, likely raising the stakes in a separate trade dispute between the two countries over a Chinese Wi-Fi security...
SAN FRANCISCO-Intel Corp. plans to unveil an ultra-wideband platform and it joined an initiative with other players to promote a common USB standard. The chip bellwether said it is working with members of the multiband OFDM Alliance to develop a standard UWB radio...
SAN FRANCISCO-Intel Corp. has announced plans to unveil a platform for the ultra-wideband wireless technology and joined an initiative with other players to promote a common USB standard.The chip bellwether said it is working with members of the multiband OFDM Alliance to develop a...
Motorola Inc. bowed to investor clamor for an outsider with the appointment of former Sun Microsystems Inc. president Edward Zander as the new helmsman, officially ending the reign of the Galvin family. Zander, most recently of private equity company Silver Lake Partners, edged out...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-The overall market for GaAs and silicon-based power semiconductors will remain relatively flat during the next five years, hovering around the $2 billion mark, according to market research firm ABI. ABI expects the market to rise at just 2 percent per year...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Celeritek Inc. said it is pulling out of the wireless amplifier business to focus its semiconductors on defense and other communications markets. The company hopes this decision will decrease its cash burn by between $14 million and $16 million a year."Excess capacity...
In the early days of wireless, users could expect their phones to store, perhaps, 100 names and phone numbers. Today, users in some cases can expect their phones to hold an entire half-hour TV show, complete with audio and video.Such advances in storage create...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Worldwide sales of semiconductors witnessed its third consecutive monthly increase from March to May of this year, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.In its report, the SIA said the sector enjoyed a 2-percent sales rise in May with a total of $12.50...
Motorola Inc. and Nokia Corp. revealed early last week that their second-quarter report cards would be less than stellar. Add Texas Instruments to the list.All three companies offered common excuses-a soft economy and the SARS epidemic. Their lowered forecasts underlined the importance of China...
In spite of the rough and tumble of the market, investments remain on an even keel in the wireless sector for the first quarter, according to venture-capital researcher Rutberg and Co.Zeroing in on such areas as 802.11, data acceleration, network software and radio-frequency semiconductors...
STAMFORD, Conn.-The worldwide semiconductor market is expected to show 8.3-percent year-over-year growth in 2003, with revenue totaling $168 billion, up from $152 billion in 2002, Gartner Inc. cautiously predicted."With quarterly sequential growth at about negative 3.5 percent in the first quarter of 2003, but...
TOKYO-Oki Electric, a leading electronic manufacturer in Japan, plans to expand sales for semiconductors for PHS handsets to meet far-expanding demand for PHS units in Asia, the firm said Wednesday. The company is targeting to sell a total of 7 million units of LSI...
BEIJING-Samsung received the Chinese government's approval to directly sell its handsets on the domestic market, bypassing import agents. Market leaders Motorola and Nokia already sell directly.Samsung expects China to have generated US$6.4 billion in revenue in 2002, compared with Motorola's US$5.7 billion. Apart from...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Advanced Micro Devices, Fujitsu Corp. and Saifun Semiconductors Ltd. say they plan to collaborate to cross-license patents, settle outstanding litigation and work toward developing next-generation non-volatile memory technology."By combining our long-standing expertise in Flash memory with Saifun's capabilities and intellectual pproperty we will...
CHICAGO—Motorola Inc., which has been laying off workers in waves for the past 18 months, has one more round of cuts to make before reaching its goal of trimming 50,000 jobs, or one-third of its workforce. Motorola executives are "reviewing" the final restructuring steps...
TOKYO—Japanese vendor Matsushita Electric Industrial set up a new semiconductor manufacturing company in China, the firm announced on 31 January.The new firm, called Suzhou Matsushita Semiconductor, is located in Jiangsu Province and will initially provide discrete semiconductors for manufacturers in China, but Matsushita is...
BEIJING—China's Datang Technology, China Electronics Corporation Wireless (CECW) and the Dutch firm Philips Semiconductors have agreed to form a joint venture to design and license core technology for TD-SCDMA mobile phones, including platform design, chipsets and software, China's Business Weekly reported in its 9...
